Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to increase the (a) amount and (b) quality of modern slavery training provided to police officers.

The Government have made £8.5m of additional funding available from the Police Transformation Fund to support the establishment of the Modern Slavery Police Transformation Programme.

This programme has developed a range of bespoke training courses which are accredited by the College of Policing. These include general awareness courses for the frontline to detailed training packages for senior investigators leading complex modern slavery investigations.

Since 2017, around 6,200 specialist modern slavery training days have been delivered by the programme to more than 4000 police officers and staff. All forces in England and Wales have participated. This formal training is supported by a programme of workshops and development events with participation from across all police forces.